Mamewah, Magic Engine and other rare emualtors. Help

[Demon-Seed]

Hello,
I am trying to get Magic Engine to work with Mamewah but I have had no luck. I have all the roms showing in the list etc... when I run the game from mamewah the Magic engine opens but doesn't auto load the rom. Can anyone help me out? I have tried other PCE emus with no luck.

Anyone been able to get Project Tempest to work with mamewah? i tried wrapper etc.. but all it does is load project tempest but not the game? anyoine advise.. its just like magic engine problem


thx
Jim

[screaming]

Hello,
I am trying to get Magic Engine to work with Mamewah but I have had no luck. I have all the roms showing in the list etc... when I run the game from mamewah the Magic engine opens but doesn't auto load the rom. Can anyone help me out? I have tried other PCE emus with no luck.

  Every time I install Magic Engine it renders my Windows XP installation unusable.  I have to re-install Windows from scratch.

-Steve

[dreamcastninja]

rare emulators?

 

[TalkingOctopus]

Here are my settings for Magic Engine:  They do not work if you launch a game from cdrom.

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;EMULATOR OPTIONS
Emulator Title = Turbo Graphx
Emulator Executable = G:\Emulators\TurboGraphx\me098-english-demo\pce.exe
Default Options =
Extra Options #1 =
Extra Options #2 =
Show DOS Box = 0
Send ROM Path = True
Use Long Filenames = False
Send ROM Extension = True
DAT Filename =
NMS Filename =
CatVer Filename =
ROM Path = G:\Emulators\TurboGraphix\PCERen109a\PCERen\USA
ROM Extension = PCE
List Generation Method = 0
Artwork #1 Image Path = G:\Emulators\TurboGraphix\TurboGfx16(NECPCEngine)_snaps[all_country]\screens

[biron]

Anyone been able to get Project Tempest to work with mamewah? i tried wrapper etc.. but all it does is load project tempest but not the game? anyoine advise.. its just like magic engine problem

i am using Project tempest v0.82. (the newest commandline version, i think..)

this is my .ini-file for mameway:

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### 20jaguar.ini ###

emulator_title                            Atari Jaguar

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  C:\MAMEWAH\SPEL\JAGUAR_\ROMS
rom_extension                             jag
dat_file                                  
nms_file                                  
catver_ini_file                          
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       C:\MAMEWAH\SPEL\JAGUAR\PT.EXE
send_rom_path                             0
send_rom_extension                        1
quotes_around_romnames                    0
long_filenames                            0
show_dos_box                              no
default_options                          
extra_options_1                          
extra_options_2                          

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                      C:\MAMEWAH\SPEL\JAGUAR_\TITLES
artwork_2_image_path                      C:\MAMEWAH\SPEL\JAGUAR_\SCREENS
artwork_3_image_path                      C:\MAMEWAH\SPEL\JAGUAR_\BOX
artwork_4_image_path                      
artwork_5_image_path                      
artwork_6_image_path                      
artwork_7_image_path                      
artwork_8_image_path                      
artwork_9_image_path                      
artwork_10_image_path                    
movie_preview_path                        
movie_artwork_no                          1

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               1
saver_type                                slideshow
scr_file                                  
wrapper_executable                        
wrapper_options                          
movie_path                                

### External Application Settings ###
ipc_file_or_path                          
app_1_executable                          
app_1_commandline_format                  
app_2_executable                          
app_2_commandline_format                  
app_3_executable                          
app_3_commandline_format                  
auto_launch_apps                          

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                                
lcd_display_file_path                    
lcd_fe_text                              

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0

and you also need to set up the project tempest ini file (pt.ini in the PT directory)
mine looks like this:

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ROMpath         C:\MAMEWAH\SPEL\JAGUAR_\ROMS
EepromPath      C:\MAMEWAH\SPEL\JAGUAR_\ROMS\eeprom
BootromPath      C:\MAMEWAH\SPEL\JAGUAR_\ROMS\jagboot.rom
sound         1
sound_timers      1
sound_output      1
framelimit      1
fullscreen      1
width         800
height         600
boot_from_bootrom   0

sound_frequency      22050
soundbuffer_size   6000
sound_latency      10

joypad1_left      key_a
joypad1_right      key_d
joypad1_up      key_w
joypad1_down      key_s
joypad1_a      key_z
joypad1_b      key_x
joypad1_c      key_c
joypad1_pause      key_p
joypad1_option      key_r
joypad1_0      key_b
joypad1_1      key_n
joypad1_2      key_m
joypad1_3      key_o
joypad1_4      key_p
joypad1_5      key_u
joypad1_6      key_i
joypad1_7      key_k
joypad1_8      key_j
joypad1_9      key_l
joypad1_star      key_numpadstar
joypad1_sharp      key_numpadslash

You need a jaguar boot rom ofcourse..

[Demon-Seed]

That is awsome thanks guys! I will try it.. I appreciate it. I downloaded tempest from zophar.net and it plays games no problem..do I still need a bios file? Is there a way to have it open in full screen? mine only runs in a window.

Also... anyone been able to set up Chankast>? to work with bins or images easily to load from a list in mamewah???

thx guys
JIM

[biron]

That is awsome thanks guys! I will try it.. I appreciate it. I downloaded tempest from zophar.net and it plays games no problem..do I still need a bios file? Is there a way to have it open in full screen? mine only runs in a window.

hmm.. yes I guess you can play without bios-rom.

if you loke once more in my pt.ini file you see that you can set Fullscreen to 0 or 1


biron

[Demon-Seed]

Hey
I have the newest version .95 there is no PT.INI and I made one but it does nothing... hm......
I will try to find 82

[biron]

Hey
I have the newest version .95 there is no PT.INI and I made one but it does nothing... hm......
I will try to find 82

the newer versions (V0.90 upward) doesn't support commandline.
as far as I know the newest commandline version is 0.82.

here is a link;

http://pt.emuunlim.com/PTv0.82.zip

[Demon-Seed]

Hey
thanks that version did the trick got it working mint! thanks for the help.

[lucindrea]

Also... anyone been able to set up Chankast>? to work with bins or images easily to load from a list in mamewah???

look on howards site for the lancher , although the 0.25 ver does full screen i still use the older .2a on my machine as i find it more stable .. as for the images .. i just run it like

chankast-launch.exe E:\ChankastAlpha02a\powerstone2.cdi